Microsoft’s All-American Request to Obama: Use a $3,350 Smartphone!
January 31, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Cellphones, PDAs
All-American PR: After Obama’s minions announced his continued reliance on his Blackberry for communication (though to a select group of people), Microsoft stepped up to attack RIM:
Microsoft, however, has questioned the wisdom of the president relying on a device whose maker is based in Canada. “You would be sending your data outside the country,” says Randy Siegel, a Microsoft enterprise mobile strategist who works on federal government projects. “We wouldn’t want the casual musings or official communications of the most important person in the world being intercepted by others.”
Even if RIM routed information through a U.S. data center, the devices …read more
